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Iomega Click drives (was Re: Iomega Click Of Death (was Different take on 10 Yr. 'RULE'))

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

Previously in this thread: >> But Iomega already marketed a drive named "Click" (20M? too little, >> too late) > > 40mb. I inherited a drive and some disks... I find it remarkable that > they managed to fit a spinning-removable-media drive inside a standard > PCMCIA card. Somehow, I don't really feel like trusting it to anything > important, though :). I have a couple of these I picked up cheap from a surplus company a few years back. I would never rely on these as a primary backup, but as a fun little device, they are amusing to watch work. My thought when I first saw them was that they reminded me of the storage device show in the alien tech "museum" in "Men in Black", where Tommy Lee Jones picks one up and says, "now I'll have to buy the White Album all over again". It has tempted me to rip my real White Album to Click and see if I could fit the Iomega PCMCIA card into a 3.5" PCMCIA-IDE adapter frame and mount _that_ in a 3.5"-5.25" adapter frame, then mount *that* in my Apex DVD/CD player in place of the IDE DVD-ROM drive. A long way for a gag, but I think it would work. -ethan P.S. - in the box with my Click stuff is a CF-to-Click adapter - the idea was you'd take a 16MB or 32MB CF card from your camera, drop in a Click disk, then siphon off your pictures without a PC in-between. It was a fine idea except it was a) expensive, and b) camera cards quickly blew past the size of a Click disk.

16 years, 5 months

VLSiCE96

by cfs＠ecs.soton.ac.uk

Hi, We are looking for a second hand intel VLSiCE96 emulator. I have seen incomplete ones on eBay but would prefer the complete kit including the 'umbilical cord' and software. Does anyone still have these? We are in UK but may be able to arrange shipping etc. Thanks Colin

16 years, 5 months

another magazine article request

by evan＠snarc.net

Anyone have the Nov. 1973 issue of Datamation? I'm looking for a scan of the article titled "APL for teachers".

16 years, 5 months

Offer: HP Laserjet III and spare parts, non-working

by classiccmp＠philpem.me.uk

Hi guys, Does anyone want a HP Laserjet III? I've got one sitting on the floor next to me occupying valuable space, which quite frankly needs to go. Last time I checked it was flagging one of the two common Service errors (I think it was Service 50), and it's missing a button off the front panel (the one that goes underneath ON LINE). I've also got a spare toner cartridge (in unknown condition), and possibly a bag of spare parts that were scavenged off another LJ3 (that one had a dead laser scanner). Nuts, bolts, rollers, front panel buttons, that sort of thing. I might also have some modules, e.g. power supply, and almost certainly have a spare LJ3 motherboard that can go as well. If you don't want the full machine, I'm also willing to part it (or the Big Bag O' Spares) out. Let me know what bits you need... Quite frankly I need the space, and don't need the printer (my Kyocera laser speaks HP-PCL and "KPDL" aka PostScript quite fluently). If nothing happens with it "soon", it's getting scavenged then scrapped. Location is Leeds, West Yorkshire. Buyer collects, price is zero, zilch, nada if you take the whole bloody lot off my hands. If I have to get a screwdriver out and package things up to post, it'll be cost of post and packing materials... Cheers, -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/

16 years, 5 months

Reanimating a PDP-11/23

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

Hi all. I've been trying to get my 11/23 back on its feet. I've tried the following setup: KDF11-AA (M8186, CPU) MSV11-DD (M8044-DD, Memory) DLVJ1-M (M8043, SLU) BDV11 (M8012) The power check out ok and I've turned it on with the HALT switch up or down and get the following behaviour. With halt switch down: The run light goes out and all diods on the BDV11 lights up. With halt switch up: The run light stays on and the diods on the BDV11 indicates that the console terminal test routine is waiting for response >from operator on keyboard. In both cases I see nothing on my terminal (I tried both a vt100 and vt320) were I think I should see the ODT @-prompt. I'm not sure what to do next, any suggestions? Also, the AUX on/off switch does not work, how is it connected to the PSU? Kind Regards, Pontus.

16 years, 5 months

Nitron

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

I have a few Nitron NC7040LC chips - 24 pin DIPs. They have 1980 datecodes. Any idea what these might be? Who was Nitron anyway? I see some of the chip merchants on the net have some as well. -- Will

16 years, 5 months

Nitron (more)

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

Nevermind - I found the datasheet. I had a typo the first time I searched. -- Will

16 years, 5 months

ASR-33 base

by chd_1＠nktelco.net

Does anyone have a base for an ASR-33 that they want to get rid of? Alternatively, is anyone willing to take some photographs of the base so that I can make a reasonably accurate facsimile? I would need 3 images: front, side, rear taken from about the middle of the base from the floor to make scaling easy. -chuck

16 years, 5 months

Different take on 10 Yr. 'RULE'

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

A different interpretation on the 10 Yr. 'Rule'. Many experts, CPU mag being one, say that we shouldn't store info on CDs, DVDs, etc. as they may be unreadable in less than 10 yrs. Wouldn't it be sad if we lost valuable information on the classic computing era? I guess old-fashioned paper is the best way after all! Let's hope these technologies last longer than my Zip-drive and disks that can't be read because the drive died and I can't get it fixed or at the very least at a decent price. So Sad! Murray--

16 years, 5 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 76, Issue 12

by shoppa＠trailing-edge.com

On 5 Dec 2009 at 10:41, Fred Cisin wrote: > Machines were designed to perform to certain benchmarks. Anyone > remember Saxpy (the company, not the LINPACK deck)? Anyone have one > of their machines? Ah, I remember Saxpy Computer Corporation to be in the same vein as Alliant and Sequent etc. A little different than the SEL/Gould processors but not too much (somewhere I have a "Firebreathers from Gould" button, must be 1986? 87?), and probably closer to the bolt-on vector coprocessors. But no, other than hearing their sales pitches never saw one. I'm not sure I knew any labs that bought one. OTOH Alliant and Sequent got into lots of engineering labs and even schools in that time frame. Tim.

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